Yield maps have successfully been combined with economic principles in establishing precision guided recommendations for enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). This can and has resulted in greater net returns for farmers than not enrolling in CRP or enrolling all eligible land in CRP without the consideration of foregone economic opportunities (Stull et al. 2004). This study expa...

The authors analyze the consequences of imperfect output markets for the land-use decisions of semi-subsistence farmers in an agricultural frontier of southern Mexico. The approach is motivated by previous applications of the agriculture household model establishing that the farm household’s production and consumption decisions are analytically nonseparable when markets are not used. Econometri...

rural economy has an important role in rural sustainable development in every region or country. however, the rural economy in iran is too much depending on agriculture and development of other rural economy in particular nonfarm activities, has been neglected by iranian rural communities. therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the role of non-farm business on rural sustainable develo...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...

Abstract Aiming at the sub-synchronous oscillation (SSO) problem of grid-connected system multiple DFIGs, most existing theoretical studies take entire wind farm as a single-machine model, stand-alone model cannot reflect inside-wind-farm mode produced by interactions among DFIGs in farm. Therefore, this paper takes equivalent value DFIG-based to three establishes mathematical and modes through...

Reproductive wastage is a key issue for sheep producers, both regionally and globally. The reproductive output of farm animals can be influenced by physiological and environmental factors. Rapid and reliable quantification of physiological stress can provide a useful tool for designing and testing on-farm management interventions to improve farm animal welfare and productivity. In this study, w...